black clock

English

Noun

black clock (plural black clocks)

  1. (Yorkshire) the black beetle.
    • 1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 8:
      BLACK CLOCKS, 1, blackbeetles. "There's noa end o' black clocks i' t' hoil."
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